Speak less or not at all: Gadkari's medicine for BJP

Speak less or do not speak at all, is the mantra BJP president Nitin Gadkari has given to partymen in a bid to make it a party with a difference and not one of differences.
    
Gadkari said he would enforce discipline in the party along with mutual trust and would soon come out with detailed plans for the organisation and a political strategy to expand its base as also broaden the NDA.
   
"Kam bolna, nahi bolna (speaking less, not speaking). This is the exact medicine my party needs. It will take care of 90% of our problems," Gadkari told PTI in an interview.
   
52-year old Gadkari, who took over as party chief recently after its second successive defeat in Lok Sabha polls, said he would interact sparingly with the media and would give the same advice to other BJP leaders.
   
His suggestion was that partymen should even avoid speaking "off the record" to the press.
   
Gadkari's 'medicine' for the party, which is passing through a bad patch since it lost power at the Centre in 2004, has come at a time when it is plagued by infighting since the Lok Sabha poll debacle.
   
Several senior leaders had leaked letters written to the party central leadership and had taken pot-shots at their colleagues through the media on the pretext of accountability.
   
A management graduate, Gadkari said his being new to Delhi was an "asset" and he would methodically go about the task of increasing the party's vote-share by 10% in the Lok Sabha polls.